Skip to main content

VIDEO: Wheel loaders turn on each other in Chinese street battle

Irate Chinese construction workers decided enough was enough and took to the streets to settle their turf war, caught on video by a bystander. At one point, a wheel loader is seen charging in from the left, coming to the rescue of his overturned fellow loader. He almost rights the stricken machine that is lying on its side. After the dust had settle, their site managers might have had something to say about their use of company equipment. So where exactly to old dozers go to die? Are they carted of
April 19, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Irate Chinese construction workers decided enough was enough and took to the streets to settle their turf war, caught on video by a bystander.

At one point, a wheel loader is seen charging in from the left, coming to the rescue of his overturned fellow loader. He almost rights the stricken machine that is lying on its side.

After the dust had settle, their site managers might have had something to say about their use of company equipment.

So where exactly to old dozers go to die? Are they carted off to a special scrapyard where the ‘carcass’ is broken down after all useable parts are stripped away?

In the US state of Nevada, one onlooker videoed the final moments of an old bull dozer – apparently an International Harvester, according to one viewer. %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Click here Visit Youtube \Video false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDhY7GMJeI false false%> to watch as a tracked front loader picks it clean and tries hard to bash down the remaining hulk into small bits. R.I.P.

Related Content

  • INTERMAT launch for Komatsu wheeled loaders
    April 19, 2012
    Komatsu used INTERMAT to take the wraps off two new Dash 7 wheeled loaders, badged WA380-7 and WA500-7. With engine emissions being the main driver, the smaller 18-tonne WA380-7 packs 142kW from its EU Stage IIIb engine to deliver improved efficiency and lower fuel consumption. The machine also gets torque converter lock-up with the function operating in 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears, and gives the loader a 40 km/h forward speed.
  • Demolition project for UK car park
    November 5, 2012
    In the UK town of Luton, a contractor has been hard at work demolishing a car park. Situated in the centre of this large town, the car park had to be removed as it had reached the end of its working life. But the tight space of the urban working environment meant that the contractor had to be extremely careful not to damage surrounding buildings or inconvenience business, traffic or commuters. Long reach excavators with demolition attachments were used by the firm.
  • Demolition starts on Seattle’s Alaska Way Viaduct
    June 14, 2019
    Demolition of the Alaska Way Viaduct in the northwest US city of Seattle is underway, including the filling in of a redundant road tunnel.
  • Sheep in the city
    May 22, 2019
    Christmas follies Christmas congestion was caused in Cambridgeshire due to an errant Santa. Traffic was forced to halt on a busy stretch of road in the town of Wisbech after an inflatable Santa was blown from the house where it had been secured. The giant Santa inflatable came to rest on Cromwell road, lying on its side and appearing to wave drunkenly at vehicles passing in the opposite lane. Two men then managed to remove the giant inflatable from the roadway, allowing vehicles to pass. And an overze